He's started selling the grain reserves.
4 seconds sound clip from the Gladiator (2000) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:23:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- He spends all his days singularly obsessed, planning the festival to honor your father.
- He neglects even the most fundamental task of government.
- So just what is he planning?
- These daily games are costing a fortune, yet we have no new taxes.
- The future. The future pays for it.
- He's started selling the grain reserves.
- He's selling Rome's reserves of grain. The people will be starving in two years.
- I hope they're enjoying the games, because soon enough they'll be dead because of them.
- And how? He's going to dissolve the Senate.
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